Vaman Malhar Joshi

Who is Vaman Malhar Joshi?

Vaman Malhar Joshi was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

Vaman Malhar Joshi should not be confused with the playwright Waman Gopal Joshi. They were contemporaries.

Joshi was born on January 21, 1882 in the town of Tale in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. After finishing his high school education in 1900, he studied at Deccan College in Pune to receive his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1904 and 1906, respectively.

Joshi served thereafter for a few years as a teacher in a nationalistic high school. Since 1908, he also served as the editor of a nationalistic monthly Wishwa Wrutta. Soon after 1908, British authorities imposed a three-year imprisonment with hard labor on him for the “crime" of publishing in Wishwa Wrutta some "inflammatory" articles suggesting overthrow of the British rule.

After release from the prison, Joshi worked for two years as the editor of Lokamanya Tilak's daily Kesari. In 1918, he joined the teaching staff of the Women's University which Bharat Ratna Dhondo Keshav Karve had founded two years earlier,. He taught philosophy, psychology, and English and Marathi literature at the university. Later he became the principal of the university.